Catholic News Service

A firm that has filed previous legal complaints against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and church entities added another complainant July 21 against the...

LIVONIA, Mich. -- They were teachers. A librarian. A director of religious education. A secretary in the Vatican Secretariat of State. The author of...

BALTIMORE -- Weeks after protesters toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into Baltimore's Inner Harbor, members of the city's Italian American...

VALLA BEACH, Australia — China has announced that Bishop Paul Ma Cunguo of Shuozhou, a Vatican-recognized bishop, has joined the official state-run Chinese Catholic...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — U.S. Catholic schools are tweaking their reopening plans for a worrisome fall term by consulting parents and training staff...

NANTES, France — French police have opened an arson investigation into a fire at a Gothic cathedral in Nantes. The blaze broke out in three...

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican's Congregation for Clergy issued a new instruction on pastoral care that specifies the role of lay men and women...

CLEVELAND -- Broad reforms that would contribute to greater accountability and transparency regarding church finances are needed to address the financial crisis the church...

WASHINGTON -- WAR, what is it good for? For Edwin Starr, the answer was "absolutely nothin'" -- although "somethin'" might be a better answer, since...

WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Ronald A. Hicks of Chicago to head the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois. Bishop Hicks, 52, is vicar...